The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/723
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd April 2000.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 .

Section 3 Amendment of regulations 19 and 25 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 19(1) (payments to be disregarded) of the principal Regulations after sub-paragraph (zs) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph–

(zt) a payment made to a person as a participant in a scheme such as is mentioned in section 60(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 .

Section 4 Amendment of regulations 19 and 25 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 25(2) (earnings for the purposes of certificates of exception) of the principal Regulations sub-paragraph (b) –

(a) the word “or” immediately after paragraph (i) shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph (ii) for the words “under that scheme” there shall be substituted the words

under that scheme, or–

(iii) where the applicant, as a participant in a scheme such as is mentioned in section 60(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999, has received payments under that scheme,